Can I use an Upgrade from VS2008 to VS2013

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Hello experts,

We have VS2008 full version installed in our computer.
We recently bought VS2013 Professional. But I saw a line on back of the product
"To qualify for this upgrade, you must license VS professional 2012"

Does it work if I upgrade it now? Meaning, VS2008 to VS2013 will it work properly.

Posted 18-Feb-15 6:20am

sudevsu

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If you have bought the full version then it should work.
If this is an upgrade only, then I guess you need VS2012.

Some info - http://visualstudiomagazine.com/articles/2013/09/30/microsoft-announces-vs-2013-pricing.aspx[^] (this may not be latest information though).

Posted 18-Feb-15 7:29am

Abhinav S

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sudevsu 18-Feb-15 14:25pm

Yes Abhinav that is not latest. Because I just installed VS2013 Neither it asked me for VS2012 nor it throws an error.
So we are happy now with what we have. But I appreciate your time in answering ...

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Accepted Answer · 2015-02-18T06:24:00

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This is weird. There are no upgrades. VS versions are separate products. You can install VS 2013 and keep VS 2008 if you need it. All you need to decide is to uninstall VS 2008 or not, it's up to you. It should not interfere with VS 2013 installation.

—SA

Posted 18-Feb-15 6:24am

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

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sudevsu 18-Feb-15 12:33pm

Oh Ok Then it must be fine. But I was shocked reading the back of package VS2013 saying that above.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 18-Feb-15 12:41pm

Then maybe the only thing in not starting to panic too early. :-)
Good luck.
—SA

sudevsu 18-Feb-15 13:05pm

Hehehe Thank you

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 18-Feb-15 13:20pm

You are very welcome.
Good luck, call again. :-)
—SA

Philippe Mori · Accepted Answer · 2015-02-18T06:41:00

In theory (legally), you should have a version that qualify for the upgrade. On the other hand, as one person is allowed to install and use Visual Studio on many computers, it would be cumbersome if one would have to install an old version just to install the newer one. In practice, if you don't need the old version and it is not yet installed, you might prefer to just install the new one. You would rarely uninstall an old version these days.

Our computers?... If you have multilple computers then each user should have its own licence... And each user that does not have a previous version licence should buy a full licence.

By the way, for small company there are the Community edition and the Express edition that might be enough depending on your projects and company size.